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An Android Based Patient Monitoring System

Gowthami.P
Department of Medical Electronics engineering
Sengunthar college of engineering
Namakkal, Tamilnadu, India.

Dr.P.Sathishkumar
Principal, Sengunthar college of engineering
Namakkal, Tamilnadu, India.
AbstractThis paper proposes an efficient online patient monitoring using android application. Telemedicine is a rapidly
developing application of clinic medicine where medical information is transferred through the phone or internet or other
networks for the purpose of consulting and performing remote medical procedures or examinations. Telemedicine can be
applied to a greater extend in the field of patient monitoring serves as the major tool. This project elaborates the experience; a
methodology adopted and highlights various design aspects to be considered for making telemedicine in patient monitoring
system effective. In this method, the patients vital signs like heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, Angle Displacement
Measurement, object reflection measurements are captured and the values are entered into the database. It is then uploaded
into the web based server and sent to the doctors phone using ANDROID technology.
KeywordsAndroid, Patient monitoring, Telemedicine, Database
I.

INTRODUCTION

A Patient Monitor (also known as Vital Signs Monitors) are a medical monitor or physiological monitor or display, is an electronic
medical device that measures a patient's vital signs and displays the data so obtained, which may or may not be transmitted on a
monitoring network. Physiological data are displayed continuously on a CRT or LCD screen as data channels along the time axis,
They may be accompanied by numerical readouts of computed parameters on the original data, such as maximum, minimum and
average values, pulse and respiratory frequencies, and so on. In critical care units of hospitals, bedside units allow continuous
monitoring of a patient, with medical staff being continuously informed of the changes in general condition of a patient. Some
monitors can even warn of pending fatal cardiac conditions before visible signs are noticeable to clinical staff, such as atrial
fibrillation or premature ventricular contraction (PVC).
II.

NEEDS AND SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT

Patient monitoring system is a process where a surgeon can continuously monitor more than one patient, for more than one
parameter at a time in a remote place. With the development of Smart-phone, it has performed a Smartphone based body
monitoring system with a combination of the advantages of network technology and multiple sensor fusion technology. Body
monitoring system greatly improves the operational capability of health care, such as remote operations, wireless health care so
on. There has been a growing concern with technology of medical care which has developed rapidly and plays an increasingly
important role in our life.
The modern visionary of healthcare industry is to provide better healthcare to people anytime and anywhere in the world in a more
economic and patient friendly manner. Therefore for increasing the patient care efficiency, there arises a need to improve the
patient monitoring devices and make them more mobile. The medical world today faces two basic problems when it comes to
patient monitoring. Firstly, the needs of health cares providers presence near the bedside of the patient and secondly, the patient
is restricted to bed and wired to large machines. In order to achieve better quality patient care, the above cited problems have to be
solved.
As the bio instrumentation, computers and telecommunications technologies are advancing, it has become feasible to design more
portal vital sign tele-monitoring systems to acquire, record, display and to transmit the physiological signal from the human body
to any location. Recent works in communication technologies have inspired the development of telemedicine to a large extent.
Telemedicine benefits not only the customers who are able to receive health care more efficiently; it also benefits the doctors who
can streamline their efforts to assist more patients.
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The advances in information and communication technologies enable technically, the continuous monitoring of health related
parameters with wireless sensor, wherever the user happens to be. They provide valuable real time information enabling the
physicians to monitor and analyze a patients current and previous state of health.
Now days there are several efforts towards the development of system that carry out remote monitoring of patients. Although
many wireless standards can be used, there are important considerations such as range, throughput, security, ease of
implementation and cost. The patient monitoring involves handling of sensitive data. These data should be transmitted securely
without any intrusion.
The web-database is a system where the web server will store the data in table format where the digital data are filled in column
and then it is plotted against the time to get the parameters. For GUI, Android is used, since its open source and very cheaply
available in market which fulfils the criteria of low cost system. Also now days, Android is available to each and every person,
including Doctors, since they have started using the Smartphone. In present paper, we report on development of patient monitoring
system an android platform which is an open source, to display five parameters such as Heart Beat, Temperature, Blood Pressure,
Bone flexibility and Drowsiness. With this module, the doctors who are not present in hospital at time of emergency, they can also
operate looking at the different parameters on his or her smart phone or laptop.
III.

SYSTEM DESCRIPTION

Our aim is to develop patient monitoring system which has telemetry included in that system. The system also includes the web
server and web database system from where the data of patient is transmitted all over the world. The block diagram of proposed
system is shown in figure.
Power Supply

Flex sensor

Heartbeat
sensor
Temperature
sensor

PIC Controller
(Embedded C)

MAX 232
(Logic
Converter)

PC
(Web server)

Eye blinking
sensor
BP sensor

Fig. 3.1 Block diagram of the project

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Fig. 3.2 Functional diagram of the project

The block diagram consists of Hardware and Software. This system helps the doctor to work from outside of hospital premises.
The hardware consists of 3 blocks sensors, microcontroller and display system. Since its patient monitoring system, multiple
parameters are acquired and for proper signal acquisition, the placement of electrodes is utmost important factor. Thus placing the
electrodes on the body for acquiring the different signal at a time is a main task. After acquiring the data from the sensor, it is
amplified since the bio-signals have very low amplitude in micro-volts. So for proper diagnostic bio-amplifier is used which will
amplify the signal and display it on display system.

IV.

RESULTS

Fig. 4. GUI for Doctor-Login and Doctor-Informative Page

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT

I wish to express my profound thanks to Medical Electronics engineering department, Sengunthar college of engineering,
trichengode and faculty members for providing me all the facilities in making this project possible.
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